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"About the Book ""What is it like to live in or visit Mexico? What makes Mexico's culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of Mexican people""-- Book Synopsis What is it like to live in or visit Mexico? What makes Mexico's culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of Mexican people. Review Quotes As with past titles in the series, readers can explore various countries around the world all from their armchair. Every title has about six chapters of varying lengths written to let children feel as though they are actually visiting each country. As in preceding titles, each book describes the daily life, history, religion, and landscape using multiple paragraphs paired with photographs. Maps inform readers about the country's location and infographic side panels highlight necessary information. Endangered animal species are shared along with recipes, such as preparing nopales or prickly pear cacti in Mexico (Your Passport to Mexico), in addition to holidays and celebrations in each country. Although the overall design is the same for every country it does not distract from the amount of information given. The final pages include a glossary and further reading that can be found online or in a book. VERDICT Still a good introduction for mid-elementary readers interested in exploring the world.-- ""School Library Journal"" About the Author Isela Xitlali Gómez R. is an East LA/Inland Empire transplant who writes to piece together broken stories of family, trauma, healing, and travel a la Southern California. Her art lays its roots in the spaces between jazz and mariachi, taco trucks and chili cheese burgers, oceans and desert and now snow. Isela is a 2015 Winner of the Loft Literary Center's Mentor Series in Creative Nonfiction, a 2017 Beyond the Pure Fellow through Intermedia Arts, and a 2020 fellow of the the Loft Literary Center's Mirrors and Windows program. Her essay, ""It Happened in Fragments,"" can be found in ""How Dare We! Write,"" an anthology of writers of color on the writing life and process. Anaïs Deal-Marquez is a multidisciplinary artist raised in México and the upper midwest. She just finished the manuscript of her first poetry collection, which looks at memory, displacement, home, healing and migration. She has been published in POETRY Magazine, The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT, from Haymarket Books and elsewhere."
